Is Hebrew the world's first alphabet? Israelites in Egypt may have turned hieroglyphs into letters 3,800 years ago. Dr Douglas Petrovich looked at 16 Hebrew letters from Egyptian tablets ...

High-resolution photography at the turquoise mines of Serabit el-Khadem in Egypt’s south-central Sinai Peninsula highlighted faint letters that one epigrapher reads as “This is from Moses.” ...

A Hebrew-speaker should be able to read the bottom half or the words, and an Arabic-speaker should be able to read the top half. For example, the Aravrit word for “peace” would say “salaam ...

The Academy of the Hebrew Language announced that a mirror image of the letter Tzadi would be added to the alphabet to spell out a 'Ch.' It quickly clarified that the announcement was an April ...

Recent readings on inscriptions written in an ancient alphabet, the Proto-Sinaitic Script, may well provide proof of the ...

The world’s earliest alphabet, inscribed on stone slabs found at a number of Egyptian sites, was an early form of Hebrew, according to a new analysis. According to the new study by the Wilfrid ...

Israelis have been receptive. Over 1 million people have watched a Hebrew-language video introducing Aravrit since it was posted last week on Facebook by Kan, Israel’s new broadcasting authority.